Sunday School

Good luck to them, and I’m glad they’ve made progress in their mission. But it’s unfortunate that their horrible name works against them.

Simon they choose to be Satanists on purpose. They’ve created the ultimate religion that the religious cannot tolerate. This works in several ways: it makes a mockery of religious rituals, it challenges Chris…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

Right, a woman has never had a mistake-fuck she was remorseful about and then rationalized it as rape. Or a woman has never called out a rape for attention or out of spite. If your neighbor accused you of raping her, should we all just believe her? No, then why believe a survey?

At the same time, a lot of women don’t come forward…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

Satan does not exist. The name works very well for them.

Satanism exists, and evil exists.  I think it’s on their website that the “Satanist” atheists identify as “misunderstood” – they’ve only got themselves to blame.

Imagine if all school children studied this University syllabus as they went through the education system.

This course looks like a great idea.  I’d be interested to see the actual syllabus.

Simon, they are atheists. Satan does not exist. The name works very well for them. Evil is a religious construct. Calling people monsters is to deny what they really are and why they act so.

What would people have to gain, from lying in an anonymous survey? You seem to think that women are especially evil.

I don’t believe in evil. Only motivation. Women are often highly motivated to lie to get what they need. Emotionally or for any other need. They are especially vulnerable when with young children. It goes back to prehistoric days.…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

why believe a survey?

What would people have to gain, from lying in an anonymous survey?  You seem to think that women are especially evil.

Good luck to them, and I’m glad they’ve made progress in their mission.  But it’s unfortunate that their horrible name works against them.

Satan = evil = monsters.

Going nowhere? They have been making steady progress in the fight against the discrimination of non-Christians by the Evangelical Right, especially when it comes to displays of religiosity in public places. That is, they are defenders of the US Constitution for the benefit of all citizens and not just those who discriminate against and attempt to…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:

_Robert_ wrote:

So I see that a lot of the study is based on self reporting. Why anybody who understands the scientific method would use self reporting as actual data is beyond me.

So, suppose confidential anonymous surveys of college girls appeared to show that the rate of rape was far higher than FBI crime stats, the girls are…

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They need to get themselves a different name, and figurehead, or they’re going nowhere.  They could have called themselves the “religion of rock’n’roll” or something similarly fun.  As it is, they might as well be the “paedo party” or something equally deplorable.

Thanks Reg.  I like their mission, but I still think they’re daft as a

Simon…Speak of the Devil . A FFRF radio interview (last week) with Lucian Greaves, in show number 666…….

If you don’t want to listen to the whole show then start at about 25:30.

Unseen wrote:

confidential anonymous surveys of college girls

Who says that these are self-selected?  Surely they survey (say) 10,000 college girls at random and ask each one if they have been raped.  That’s a scientific survey.

Sometimes doing the right thing can be cruel.

I really like this article, and it reminds me of the previous one about “moral injury” (injury to one’s good moral identity).  I think that Lisa Tessman is right – when we are forced into doing something awful, even when it is the least worst option, we generally feel terrible about it.  Soldiers in w…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

So I see that a lot of the study is based on self reporting. Why anybody who understands the scientific method would use self reporting as actual data is beyond me.

So, suppose confidential anonymous surveys of college girls appeared to show that the rate of rape was far higher than FBI crime stats, the girls are lying?

Hail Satan

I’m not surprised they’re “misunderstood”, with a name like that.  Satanism means to worship evil.  Also, the only “Church of Satan” person I’ve ever come across was a total asshole.

Thanks for your efforts, Reg! 🙂

@regthefronkeyfarmer –

“self-domestication”

When you’ve read the book, can you say why he says that coalitions started to bring down dominant individuals?  There has to be a reason why they started.  From reading the review, it seems like that is a gap in his hypothesis.

The second part of Chapais’ self-domestication hypothesis is the evolu…[Read more]

The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution.

This book looks interesting: a hypothesis about the “self-domestication” of the human race.  I hold to the “stone tools hypothesis” which suggests that male on male violence decreased markedly once stone tools had been invented, which meant that any…[Read more]